Much of the public was left stunned in the wake of the November election in America. Beyond Clinton’s loss, despite winning the popular vote, many were shocked that the margin was close at all. While distrust and dislike of the electoral college is a fairly bipartisan issue, it is actually only one…

We're living in an era that you might call "peak porn." You can find just about any type of porn online and access it at any time, from anywhere. People watch the stuff at work and in fast food restaurants and at national political conventions . Even the GOP has called our fine nation's obsession…

There can’t be many “Jeopardy!” champions easier to root for than Cindy Stowell. Ms. Stowell has won six times in a row on taped episodes of the quiz show that began broadcasting last week. Ms. Stowell has developed a fan base like few other contestants. But she is unable to enjoy her performance on…

I can’t make art. I can’t draw. I can’t paint. Recently, my mother returned to me what was ostensibly a ceramic pencil holder I made in fourth grade, which in reality looks more like a distended, diseased, pockmarked frog. In kindergarten–this is true–I failed Scissors. Still today, whenever I…

Nick Preston decided to call his upcoming series of short adventure games Toryansé after the Japanese folk song of the same name. The song is traditionally sung as part of a children’s game—Warabe uta, which is very similar to the English nursery rhyme game Oranges and Lemons —but has surprisingly…

Archi Trujillo / Getty You’ve likely seen the video before : a stream of kids, confronted with a single, alluring marshmallow. If they can resist eating it for 15 minutes, they’ll get two. Some do. Others cave almost immediately. This “ Marshmallow Test ,” first conducted in the 1960s, perfectly…

The machine was, and still is, my constant partner. I need her in order to translate the creative thoughts in my head into tangible ideas I can share with the world. Transitioning to design from a modern dance career in my twenties, I never thought a machine would be my accomplice for innovation.…

I am the victim of Minimum Viable Product mentality. Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is a product development methodology popular with start-ups to focus a product on the minimum viable features that will appeal to a customer. Unfortunately, engineering and business culture often focus on minimum…

By Matt Cooper-Wright How automation helped us dig into our data (and add magic to our prototypes) The Automated Assistant We’re always looking for smart ways to learn more in less time. This mentality has led our researchers to push the boundaries of the data we can record in our research process.…

The Airbnb Blog – Belong Anywhere Guest-friendly home improvements for your space 0 Building a 21st Century Company 0 Update to calendar: change a group size 0 Inside Airbnb Experiences: Your top six questions answered 0 Coming Soon: Guest photos on your experience pages 0 Community Answers: What…

As Nextdoor has become one of the places where neighbors talk about how to make their local communities better, it is natural for the issue of race to be discussed and debated. But it’s not acceptable when mentions of race take the form of racial profiling. Racial profiling runs counter to…

The uxdesign.cc team has seen a lot this year: 48 issues published , 576 links curated , and sent to 98,381 designers around the world every week. When you spend that much time curating content, it’s natural to start identifying patterns. Here are the UX Trends we’re seeing in the amazing realm of…

On a Sunday afternoon at 2pm, I rang one of the three new buzzers outside a four-story townhouse in a trendy Brooklyn neighborhood. I had booked an interview with libertine fashion/tech entrepreneur Daniel Saynt to ask him—amidst swirling controversy and rumors—whether he still thought he could…

They keep coming, both the bombs and the images from Aleppo, so many of them, the munitions raining indiscriminately on trapped families, aid workers and children . The Russian and Syrian government forces wouldn’t let them leave. Critic’s Notebook By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN Dec. 14, 2016 But the…

This is the third year I have written an article summarizing the state of technology. In 2014 I described the three historical epochs of consumer technology — the PC, the browser, and mobile — and the outline of the fourth, which I suggested was messaging; in 2015 I refined the fourth to be Facebook…

When it comes to setting strategy, which is more effective: one great thinker or a wise crowd? To find out, I turned to my ongoing Top Pricer Tournament, in which 884 people — managers, consultants, professors, students — make pricing strategy decisions for a generic business competing against other…

After a series of teaser ads, Microsoft is beginning in earnest an ad campaign to repair its image, including a spot with a diver in a shark cage. RELAX, computer users, after only two weeks Microsoft will stop teasing you as the company begins the next phase of an ambitious — and risky — $300…

In September 2005, Steve Jobs gave his advertising agency, TBWA\Chiat\Day, an assignment: Come up with a campaign that clearly demonstrates the Mac's superiority to the PC. There was no deadline. Seven months, dozens of tense meetings and countless discarded ideas later, the agency produced "Get a…

In September 2005, Steve Jobs gave his advertising agency, TBWA\Chiat\Day, an assignment: Come up with a campaign that clearly demonstrates the Mac's superiority to the PC. There was no deadline. Seven months, dozens of tense meetings and countless discarded ideas later, the agency produced "Get a…

PHOTOGRAPH BY PHILIP MONTGOMERY / THE NEW YORK TIMES / REDUX I was born in Chicago on December 30, 1946, within the vortex of a huge snowstorm. My father had to help the taxi-driver navigate Lake Shore Drive with the windows wide open, while my mother was in labor. I was a scrawny baby, and my…

Photo by Maggie Lee I've always considered myself to be mostly homosexual. Whenever I watched scrambled porn on my parents' pirated satellite dish as a child, my eyes would invariably dart toward the delectable mounds that hung from the fairer sex. Whenever I watched old movies, I longed to be the…

17 digital trends for 2017 by @FrojdAgency Upcoming SlideShare Loading in … 5 × 1 1 of 57 Email sent successfully! Embed Size (px) Start on Show related SlideShares at end WordPress Shortcode Link 4,072 views Published on This report sums up what we think will be the key digital trends in 2017 when…

Across battlegrounds, Democrats blame HQ’s stubborn commitment to a one-size-fits-all strategy. “They believed they were more experienced, which they were. They believed they were smarter, which they weren’t,” said one Democratic consultant. | Getty Everybody could see Hillary Clinton was cooked in…

Do Apple's AirPods sound great? Not really. But they're about way more than playing music. Let's just get all the fun comparisons out of the way up top. Wearing AirPods is like wearing a toothbrush in your ear. No, it's like your earbuds are melting down the side of your face. They look like tiny…

(Marz Jr.) Welcome to Rogue One Week ! With the release of Rogue One , set in the years before A New Hope , we finally get our first stand-alone Star Wars movie. This week we’ll be analyzing Rogue One and the greater Star Wars universe from every conceivable angle — the storytelling, the…

A close reading of the producer’s autobiography reveals surprising sources for his talent and his sound T he next time you think about how your boss is unqualified to do his job, remember this: Timbaland, superstar producer and former architect-in-chief of American pop and R&B, can’t read sheet…

CNBC reports — citing two analysts with the private, subscriber-only data provided by NPD — that sales of physical copies of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare in November were down 50 percent compared to November 2015 for Call of Duty: Black Ops 3. The game launched Nov. 4. Let's not get hot-takey yet,…

The Bechdel-Wallace Test was developed in 1985 by Alison Bechdel and Liz Wallace to see if a work of fiction featured at least two women talking about something other than a man. Looking at the 25 top-grossing films of 2016, decided to conduct the test to see if those movies passed. The test has…

We’ve all faced difficult challenges before. Part of being someone who is actively engaged with their creativity is finding smart solutions to whatever problems come our way. This is especially true when you own your business (full-time or side-hustle) and ultimately have to count on yourself to get…

This article originally appeared on VICE France. Note: This article contains images with full-frontal nudity. Alexandre Dupouy is a sex archaeologist. The French collector has spent his entire life collecting what he defines as "erotic and pornographic junk." His shop, the Tears of Eros —now open…

This article originally appeared on VICE Canada The very first time I experienced my version of perfection was when I met a gorgeous man in Monaco last year. He's young, a multimillionaire (I mean, you have to be to live in Monte-Carlo), and during our date at the Hermitage Hotel terrace he made a…

There were many surprising pieces of Trump-related news on Monday, from Donald Trump’s fight with the F-35 to his allies’ fight with the intelligence community over Russian hacking. Equally or more consequential, though less surprising, was a pair of quiet statements he made later in the day. First,…

Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters Reima Kuisla, a Finnish businessman, was recently caught going 65 miles per hour in a 50 zone in his home country—an offense that would typically come with a fine of a couple hundred dollars, at most, in the U.S. But after Finnish police pulled Kuisla over , they pinged a…

When most travelers plan a trip to Africa, they dream of gazing at free-roaming lions, elephants, buffaloes, leopards, and rhinoceroses—the “Big Five.” And while a safari in Africa can be a trip of a lifetime, it certainly is not the only way to explore this incredibly multifaceted continent.…

A couple of weeks ago I came across this tweet from Luke Wroblewski: Do people understand the "hamburger" icon used for mobile navigation menus? http://t.co/obXN4Ut26A — Luke Wroblewski (@lukew) February 6, 2014 It asks a the simple question about people’s general understanding of the hamburger icon…

The reaction to Donald Trump’s comments about Russian interference in the election might actually be an encouraging sign for our system of checks and balances. Photograph by Drew Angerer / Getty For any would-be authoritarian strongman, a lesson of history is that you can't do it by yourself. To…